Didn't they do this on Futurama?

Or Total Recall?  Scientists watch way too much TV.
Apparently scientists are proposing sending old people away, out into space, never to return.
Scientists, worried Earth will become uninhabitable due to the left's favorite existential threat, global warming, are suggesting one-way trips to Mars to colonize the Red Planet. 
"'You would send a little bit older folks, around 60 or something like that'...  That's because the mission would undoubtedly reduce a person's lifespan, from a lack of medical care and exposure to radiation.  That radiation would also damage human reproductive organs, so sending people of childbearing age is not a good idea... 
Still, [scientists believe] many people would be willing to make the sacrifice.
The Mars base would offer humanity a 'lifeboat' in the event Earth becomes uninhabitable."
It would be pretty wild to visit Mars, though.

Scientists Propose One-Way Trips to Mars

Government Spending?

And people wonder why we're freaked out about government spending...

Suppose your friends, Bob Frank and Larry Bean, started a business manufacturing sporting goods.  Your friends started out small and grew their operation through hard work and intelligent business practices such as not taking out too many loans to build a factory addition or hire more employees before they were ready.  They were smart.  They waited until their business was a thriving, successful sporting goods manufacturer.  They waited until their business had become profitable enough to reinvest those profits into building their business.  Only then, when they could afford it, did they hire new workers and build a new wing of their factory dedicated to manufacturing basketballs.
Imagine, then, how their business would fare if Bob and Larry decided to hire dozens of new employees to do nothing but paperwork?  Imagine how their business would fare if they decided to pay their dozens of new employees twice what the sporting goods manufacturer down the road pays their employees?  Imagine how their business would fare if they took out loans to build twelve new factories in twelve different states, before they even had enough orders to fill the capacity of their first factory?  And imagine your friends Bob and Larry ignored every single business consultant you referred to them and mocked every single piece of friendly advice you offered.
Common sense tells us your friends' ball company would fail.  Common sense also tells us Bob and Larry are stupid.
Yet our federal government is behaving in the same way.  USA Today reported today that federal salaries have skyrocketed.  According to the report, "The number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more a year has soared tenfold in the past five years and doubled since President Obama took office."  Yet while Social Security recipients are not receiving cost of living adjustment for the second straight year, the President plans a 1.4% pay increase for federal workers.
By comparison, private sector workers in comparable positions make half what federal workers are paid, according to a USA Today report from August.
And this is just one example.  Instances of unbelievably reckless government spending are legion.
The difference is the federal government can print money, inflate our currency and devalue the dollar.  Your friends Bob and Larry will be rewarded for their reckless stupidity by losing their company and possibly their fortune and putting their employees out of work.  The federal government's reckless stupidity will hurt the poor whose money is now worth less.
Politicians must have some cojones to look the American people in the eye with a straight face and tell us they are concerned about spending and deficits.  This is our tax dollars, our hard earned living, and our federal government gone off the rails.
This is one of the messages last week's election tried to convey.  Republicans seem to be listening, Democrats are not.  Democrats are like your stupid friends who screwed up so completely they had to sell their life long dream, Frank and Bean's Ball Company, to China.

Michelle Obama's going to be mad...

On the heels of First Lady Michelle Obama's recent campaigning to urge restaurants and food companies to offer healthier options and default menu items, fast food chain Wendy's announces new, better tasting, more sophisticated french fries. 
Apparently they didn't get the message from Mrs. Obama and her patriarchal food police.  Offer an apple or carrot sticks instead of french fries, she instructed them.  Make customers specifically ask for fries, she chided.  We're not telling you not to offer fries, she reassured the businesses whose business is to know what customers want, what customers will buy, and what will keep their businesses operating.  We just want you to offer the choices that we think are better, she admonished.  No, there's nothing wrong with a bit of gentle coercion, is there?  Of course not.  Consumers just don't know what's good for them.
Mrs. Obama's probably not going to be visiting Wendy's for her next double cheeseburger...
Wendy's sells new fries with potato skin, sea salt

The American Trinity

You've seen the butcher.

I'll let the regular news prognosticators prognosticate about the historic nature of Tuesday's election in which voters butchered Democrats, liberals and leftists all about the fruited plains.  Here are some of the election lessons I think are important.
This election, while a monumental achievement for conservatives, or to more accurately describe voters -- Mainstream America -- is really just the opening salvo.  To borrow a phrase, "There be no shelter here."
Conservatives must keep up the momentum that's been building the past two years.  This is really just the beginning of a long and very difficult war to subdue leftism in America and reverse the monumental damage progressives, liberals, socialists and communists have done to destroy the individual liberties and freedoms of American citizens and to dismantle the very structure of America.  Progressives have been at it for a hundred years, trying to undo the principles of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, trying to squash the idea that a man can be free to govern himself.  This is a process.  It's taken a hundred years to take apart this much of America, how long will it take to put America back together again?
Having kept the Senate in Democrat hands, the president will not have any sort of legislative cover for his agenda that he might have believed he had losing both houses.  He can't blame a Republican congress for obstructing his agenda when his party still controls the Senate and the White House.  Though he will continue to blame Republicans, just as illogically as he did even with his party controlling the House, Senate and White House prior to the election, nobody's falling for it.  But whoever said narcissism was logical?
It also keeps pressure from the American voters on Obama and especially on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who miraculously was able to retain his seat.  He benefited from the very visible House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as an arrogant, flamboyant lightning rod for much of the voters' anger.  Now the boot of the American electorate lands squarely on his neck.  (Don't you just love those nice, friendly colloquialisms Democrats have introduced into mainstream political discourse?)
To be honest, conservative enthusiasm and momentum is the least of my worries.  President Obama will not moderate his agenda.  I think he is unable to move to the center and will continue to push his leftist agenda, only much more stealthily.  Fully aware that he would lose the House and possibly even the Senate, the president threatened "hand to hand combat" after the election.  Furthermore, in the weeks leading up to the election it was reported he would pursue his agenda via executive order and regulatory fiat.  For two years he pushed his agenda fully aware he was sacrificing many of his own party members at the alter of a leftist authoritarian, paternal ideology.  After two years of intense opposition to his policies by large majorities of Americans, why would the fully expected results of this election change his mind? 
I fear it will only strengthen his resolve.  After all, like most leftists, he knows better than us.  The goal of conservatives, in fact, the mainstream of America, is to support the newly elected opposition to President Obama's agenda.  They need us to be their backbone.
The president still seems to indicate he believes he has a communications problem.  His agenda is good and wonderful, but his messaging is still not getting through to the American people.  We should have loved and thanked him by now, but perhaps we are too hard headed, too ignorant, too unsophisticated to fully understand his magnificence.  Being president is a hard job, he admitted.
Apparently the American people have a communications problem too.  We're still not getting through to him.

It's time, son...

I remember when I watched the premier episode of the WB teen superhero drama Smallville.  Poor Clark Kent with all his new, frightening powers.  He sulks, in a fit of confusion and ever-present angst, when his father approaches him and says, "It's time, son."
"Are you telling me I'm an alien?  And you have my spaceship stored in the attic?"
"Actually, it's in the storm cellar."
Well, as unrelated to tomorrow's pivotal election as that story may be -- don't worry, it will all come together, give it time! -- this message is clear:  It's Time.
It's time for traditional America to fight back the hundred year march of the progressive movement to socialism.  It's not exaggeration, it's not hyperbole.  It's actually very apparent when viewed with an open, reasoned mind.
While America was getting jobs, raising families, building businesses and living lives, progressives were entrenching themselves in every elemental facet of the structure of America.  Business, education, the bureaucratic governmental complex, you name it, they dug in.  Stop and think for a moment:  Why do you think the federal government is the largest employer in the country?  Why do you think the tax code is so incredibly, unbelievably, mind-explodingly complex?  Why do you think government employee unions are so powerful and only support Democrats' campaigns?  It's a generational assault in small steps against intrinsic American freedom and individual autonomy.  The parasite comparison is actually pretty appropriate.
It's Time.  The leftists have now removed all pretenses and have shown their intentions.
Shortly after President Obama was inaugurated, in an effort to boost support for his infamous "Stimulus" bill, he chastised his opposition.  A lot of people say that it's just a spending bill, he acknowledged.  Then, with as much smugness as any overly self-important, pretentiously intellectual urbanite could muster, he chided, voice raised to fever pitch, condescension and animus dripping from his razor sharp tongue, "Well what do you think a stimulus is?!"
Personally, I think that's when he lost half the country.  The rest bailed when he suggested a woman should just give her elderly mother a pain pill, rather than the government suffer providing life saving heart surgery.
It's Time.  Remember the tremendous power of We The People.  It's more than just heat vision or the ability to fly.  It's the power to tame a land and change the world.  It's time for this generation to pick itself up, dust itself off and remember that what made this country great is the slogan found on its currency, even if it is just flimsy paper -- E Pluribus Unum.  From many, One.  This country is a nation of empowered individuals, working to achieve greatness separately and together, free to fail and free to succeed. 
This election isn't just about a President and his party, it's about a country remaining free for generations to come.  This is not just a referendum on a man, it is a referendum on an idea he holds -- that America is no longer great and that the concept of a constitutionally limited government is a relic from the past to be discarded.  This should prove to be monumental in its rebuke of Leftism and an optimistic, beautiful affirmation of Americanism. 
It's Time.  Get out there and Vote.